Informal poll: comments feed?
Fri, 21 Jan 2005
I'm considering creating a feed for comments but am not sure whether it is needed or desired, so I'm conducting an informal and thoroughly unscientific poll. Drop me an email or a comment if you have an opinion.
- Would you use a comments feed?
- Entries+comments together, or comments separately?
- How about feeds for comments on individual entries?
- Any other preferences or advice?
Keep in mind that I know little or nothing as yet about syndication formats. Creating a template that someone else hasn't already written will take some education and experimentation.
Update 23.01.2004 0:26: Comment feed created. Knock yourselves out.
Comments
I'd use it. I've got a comments feed on F.o.P., but I don't advertise it. I used a template I picked up from Jeremy Zawodny, I didn't write from scratch, so that helped.
- Posted 10:54 2005.01.21
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Do you get any spam for memory enhancement that sounds like it would work? I'd forgotten that Jeremy published a comment feed template, so I looked it up, and then remembered, but I'd forgotten that he stole it from RevJim, so I looked at that, and... oh, yeah, he stole it from me. My brain must have worked quite a bit better back then.
But, yes, do a comments feed. Even if you wind up being the only subscriber, it's still a nice backup for email notification, when that somehow breaks and you don't notice. The per-entry feeds I'm less certain about: they are quite handy for users of a couple of aggregators (NewzCrawler for sure, and I think maybe RSS Bandit), at the expense of massive requesting: unless he's fixed it recently, NewzCrawler will request the comment feed for each entry that the user hasn't deleted. Since most people just leave them all undeleted, so they can search them, they wind up requesting a ton of files every hour. Even if you are just returning 304 Not Modified, returning it for every single entry since a person subscribed is pretty extreme.
- Posted 22:13 2005.01.22
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pjm says:
I'd use it. I've got a comments feed on F.o.P., but I don't advertise it. I used a template I picked up from Jeremy Zawodny, I didn't write from scratch, so that helped.